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Ah, right. I see what you mean now. Thanks.

So, round peg in a round hole, where the hole acts as a kind of collar to hold the peg in place. And you don't attach the peg to the board, but the hole...

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I thought he was talking about drilling a hole into the end of the dowel, so that when the screw goes in it doesn't split. That's not what he was saying? And, he was talking about lamination? Isn't...

"but to bore the hole to take a threaded insert and use a machine screw/ bolt."
The person that put this together may have already done that, but I'm not sure how far up into the dowel the screws...

I tried attaching a hope clamp, but the dowel still leans to one side.

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Ok, so I have a wooden dowel, 35mm, that's attached by its end (via a screw) to the centre of a wooden board (as the base), to make something of a parrot perch.

The wooden...